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Dr David Starkey launches royal rededication of Victoria County History

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Dr David Starkey will launch the rededication to the Queen of the Victoria History of the Counties of England by delivering The Marc Fitch Lecture in the Chancellor’s Hall of Senate House, University of London on Monday 25th June.

Dr Starkey’s lecture – ‘Head of our Morality’: why the modern British monarchy matters – will be introduced by Professor Geoffrey Crossick, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London and eminent historian. Dr Starkey’s lecture will be available as a podcast at http://bit.ly/LRoLrm from 28th June.

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Bookings are now open for the David Starkey lecture on 11 June. The event, which is hosted by CCHT, is entitled "The Magna Carta 800 Years On", and will take place at the Rheged Centre, near Penrith at 7pm on Thursday 11 June, followed by a buffet supper. Tickets, price £25 (lecture and supper)

Catherine Parr's link with Kendal is well known - but is there another link between Kendal and the Tudors? Dr Starkey's lecture will explore the life of a different lady, Lady Margaret Beaufort,'my lady the king's mother' - and suggest she is "Kendal's Real Queen"